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I have tested the following thermal compounds in the M14x R1 since it has the biggest heat problems of all Alienware Laptops and is therefor good as a testing subject. The specs are: i7-2760qm | 6 GB Ram | 750 GB HDD | 1.5GB GT555M | Turbo was on at all tests and the Notebook was lifted at the backside by about 3 cm. No VBIOS mods or Overclocking was used everything on stock speed. No external fan or cooler of any kind. I have used 3dmark vantage for the stress test since this is the most real usage of this Notebook as a gaming Notebook and mirrors how the temperature is in everyday use. To get average results i used alot of benchmark tests for each compound after different cure times and calculated the resulting temps i listed below. For every compound i ran about 5-6 tests after the declared cure time. Interesting was that the performance of the Liquid Ultra doesnt change no matter which cure time i tested it. The other pastes had different results after 1 day or more cure time. Here are some pics of the pastes on the CPU, GPU and heatsinks. This is Liquid Ultra on the CPU and MX-4 on the GPU heatsinks: On this pic you can see how it looks on the CPU and GPU: Well i tried to add some more pics but it doesnt let me upload more at the moment i will try later. However you can clearly see which paste wins and where the differences of them are. MX-4: + best application + easy to remove - worst performance compared IC Diamond: + 2nd best performance + no need to repaste for years - leaves scratches - hard to remove Liquid Ultra: + easy to apply + best performance of all tested + no need to repaste for years - hard to remove from the heatsink (only by sanding it) - electrical conductive My conclusion is that of course the Liquid Ultra is the best compound for the M14x R1 since it has the best performance and has the most advantages when it comes to high temperatures. In idle there is not much difference to other high end pastes but at high work load it clearly outperforms the best pastes by up to 5 degrees.

This is a modified version of the M17x R3 BIOS A10, it brings back the SATA behavior of A08 and earlier, while keeping the features of BIOS A10. A lot of users don't seem very happy with the changes Dell made to the SATA performance of BIOS A09 and up, thus I created this BIOS. Just keep in mind one thing: Dell probably didn't change the corresponding settings in the BIOS for no reason, so it's possible that certain drives may have issue with this BIOS, I don't know. According to a lot R3 users, A08 brings a clearly better SATA performance on a wide variety of drives. It's up to you to decide what you need and what you want to use. Now you have the choice. Download link for BIOS A10 with the 'SATA fix', and unlocked hidden menus: M17x R3 BIOS A10 - unlocked & 'SATA fix' Read the included READ ME for further information and instructions. Load the default settings in the BIOS setup after flashing. User at your own risk.

Since svl7 was so helpful for me and the techi comm at all here i wanted to contribute something too. In my opinion its the most effective and productive forum cause of all the modders and competent people here. IC Diamond has in my opinion now maybe the only advantage of longlivity vs MX-4. The few differences in temperature is not worth the scratches on the surfaces. Only the liquid ultra seems to have a real advantage over the standard TIMs (or any other liquid metal TIM). Sanding the copper heatsink surface to remove it was very easy and quick too. Ofc it leaves some scratches then but thats no prob. However since it needs no cure time and always performs the same it may be that it will really last for years but that needs some longer tests ^^. I would not prefer IC Diamond over MX-4 but thats my personal opinion. The gain is too few specially under load. I would always use a liquid metal paste from now on and since the liquid ultra is the easiest to apply and remove (for a loss of maybe 1 degree compared to other liquids) i vote for this one. Maybe i should ask them for some advertising money now but i guess its too late

i tried it once and wasn't too impressed by it to be honest, also i heard the ignition switch easily fails, i think their latest model the wispr was taken off the market or something. i pre-order a new portable vape, its gonna be delivered on the 1st, i'll keep you guy posted. the one i got on order is the pax made by ploom.

Abit out of topic here. But since, it started from this thread, just need to share how awesome is svl7 work! Stock (500MHz) : NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE video card benchmark result - Intel® Core i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz,Sony Corporation VAIO score: P1397 3DMarks VS OC (900MHz) : NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE video card benchmark result - Intel® Core i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz,Sony Corporation VAIO score: P2231 3DMarks 90% Overclock! THANKS TO MARCO!

I don't think the Amsterdam thing is right. I do imagine that possibly a reason it came about was due to foreigners unlike nice people like Michael who visit and respect the country... I'm sure foreigners coming and getting all screwed up and acting like they own the place probably ruined it for the rest of us. You know a few bad eggs. It still doesn't make it right. Perhaps having a more harsher policy on public nuicances would be a better solution than them banning every foreigner from partaking in something that has brought countless tourists from around the world to try the great herbs from Amsterdam.